Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?